Italian Generals in Schokken

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Italian Generals in Schokken

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Post by LColombo » 24 Dec 2019, 19:24

Is there a full list of the 209 Italian Generals and Admirals who were imprisoned in Oflag 64/Z in Schokken (Skoki) after the Armistice of Cassibile?

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Re: Italian Generals in Schokken

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Post by LColombo » 29 Dec 2019, 15:41

In the report he wrote after his liberation, Admiral Emilio Brenta, one of the officers imprisoned in Schokken, states that the following amounts of general officers were imprisoned in this camp in November 1943:

• three generali d’armata;
• two generali designati d’armata;
• twenty generali di corpo d’armata or “incaricati”;
• 46 generali di divisione or incaricati;
• 84 generali di brigata;
• one ammiraglio di squadra;
• four ammiragli di divisione (including Brenta; the other three were Manlio Tarantini, Carlo Daviso di Charvensod, Giuseppe Lombardi);
• two contrammiragli (Luigi Mascherpa and Franco Zannoni);
• one generale di squadra aerea;
• two generali di divisione aerea;
• three generali di brigata aerea;
• one console generale of the M.V.S.N.

Overall, therefore, 169 generals and admirals (rather than 209), plus a few dozen officers other ranks and a few dozen enlisted men (mostly orderlies).

I am trying to identify at least the highest ranking officers. For the Navy, the ammiraglio di squadra was Inigo Campioni; for the Air Force, the generale di squadra aerea was Felice Porro.

For the Army, I am focusing on the generali di corpo d’armata and upwards. As far as I know, they were:

Generali d’armata: Italo Gariboldi, Ezio Rosi, Carlo Geloso;

Generali designati d’armata: Carlo Vecchiarelli, Lorenzo Dalmazzo (I presume: I know these two were in Schokken, and were both in command of an Army, but I am not sure if they were generali d’armata or designati d’armata);

Generali di corpo d’armata od incaricati: Curio Barbasetti di Prun, Gervasio Bitossi, Antero Leonardo Canale, Armellini Chiappi, Guido Della Bona, Umberto Di Giorgio, Arnaldo Forgiero, Alessandro Gloria, Mario Marghinotti, Umberto Mondino, Ercole Roncaglia, Carlo Rossi, Carlo Spatocco, Sebastiano Visconti Prasca; another six that I have been unable to identify.

Does anyone know who were the six “missing” generali di corpo d’armata? I think they may be among the following Corps commanders whose fate after the Armistice remains unclear to me: Licurgo Zannini (commander of XXIV Corps), Alberto Ferrero (commander of XXIII Corps), Antonio Scuero (commander of V Corps), Giovanni Zanghieri (commander of XII Corps), Luigi Manzi (commander of III Corps), Alessandro Piazzoni (commander of VI Corps), Federico Romero (commander of I Corps). I know for sure that Scuero, Piazzoni and Zannini became prisoners of Germany, but I do not know if they were in Schokken or another camp (other Italian generals were imprisoned in Vittel, a camp in France, while some others, such as Dalmazzo, were transferred from Schokken to Vittel at a later stage).


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Re: Italian Generals in Schokken

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Post by Steen Ammentorp » 30 Dec 2019, 21:02

Hi,

This is a list compiled from my notes of 200 senior officer, who at one point or another was held at Schoken. The rank given is the one held at the time of the armistice, except those with an * who were "incaricati". The date given dd.mm.yyyy is the date of their first arrival at Schokken, they may have been moved on later and perhaps returned. A number of the the officers were retired (riserva) at the time of armistice, but may been recalled or not.

Generali d'armata - 3
Italo Gariboldi (retd.), 28.09.1943
Carlo Geloso, 01.10.1943
Ezio Rosi, 21.09.1943

Generali d’armata or designati d’armata - 3
Lorenzo Dalmazzo, 25.09.1943
Carlo Vecchiarelli, 21.09.1943
Sebastiano Visconti Prasca (retd.), 15.12.1943

Generali di corpo d’armata - 19
Curio Barbasetti di Prun, 08.10.1943
Gervaio Bitossi, 26.09.1943
Antero Canale, 26.09.1943
Armellini Chiappi, 17.10.1943
Guido Della Bona, 03.10.1943
Umberto Di Giorgio, 01.10.1943
Arnaldo Forgiero, 21.09.1943
Alessandro Gloria, 24.09.1943
Francesco Loasses, 27.09.1943
Mario Marghinotti, 21.09.1943
Luigi Mazi*, 20.10.1943
Uberto Mondino, 13.10.1943
Leonida Pacini (retd.), 20.09.1943
Alessandro Piazzoni*, 25.09.1943
Ercole Roncaglia, 21.09.1943
Carlo Rossi, 22.09.1943
Carlo Spatocco, 02.10.1943
Arturo Taranto, 24.09.1943
Ugo Zannini, 21.09.1943

Generale di squadra aerea - 1
Felice Porro, 13.11.1943

Ammiragli di squadra - 1
Inigo Campioni, 03.11.1943

Generali di divisione - 51
Giuseppe Andreoli*, 26.09.1943
Paolo Angioy, 28.09.1943
Francesco Arena, 01.10.1943
Massimino Asteriti, 22.09.1943
Gaetano Binacchi, 22.09.1943
Aurelio Bozzoni (retd.), 22.09.1943
Ugo Buoncompagni, 28.09.1943
Raffaele Calzini, 28.09.1943
Italo Caracciolo (retd.), 28.09.1943
Guido Cerruti*, 17.10.1943
Bernardo Cetroni, 26.09.1943
Luigi Clerico*, 04.10.1943
Renato Coturri (retd.), 27.09.1943 – Joins RSI
Federico D'Arle, 07.10.1943
Ettore De Blasio, 26.09.1943
Cesare Delponte (retd.), 23.10.1943 – Joins RSI
Attilio Fantoni (retd.), 24.09.1943
Carlo Fassi*, 24.09.1943
Luigi Fogliani, (retd.), ? (was there in 1945)
Antonio Franceschini, 09.10.1943
Giuseppe Gianni, 20.09.1943
Attilio Grattarola (retd.), 20.09.1943
Enrico Lugli*, 19.10.1943
Giovanni Maccario, 17.10.1943
Mario Maggiani, 26.10.1943
Matteo Negro, 27.09.1943
Gino Pedrazzoli, 17.10.1943
Erberto Papini*, 03.10.1943
Carlo Pellegrini, 17.10.1943
Carlo Perugi (retd.), 21.09.1943
Giuseppe Piacentini (retd.), 28.09.1943
Giovanni Angelo Pivano, 22.09.1943
Aldo Princivalle*, 06.10.1943
Luigi Reverberi, 24.09.1943
Michele Ricciuti (retd.), 22.09.1943
Erminio Rovida, 22.09.1943
Vittorio Ruggero, 22.09.1943
Michele Scardina, 25.09.1943
Pietro Scipione, 26.09.1943 - Joins RSI
Amedeo Sorrentino, 21.09.1943
Guglielmo Spicacci, 25.09.1943
Ugo Tabellini, 27.09.1943
Carlo Tessiore, 24.09.1943
Franco Testi*, 22.09.1943
Francesco Tessore (retd.), 24.09.1943
Rodolfo Torresan, 28.09.1943
Arturo Torriano, 26.09.1943
Carlo Tucci, 08.10.1943
Michele Vaccaro*, 22.09.1943
Alberto Vasarri (retd.), 26.09.1943
Donato Vox (retd.), 26.09.1943

Generali di divisione aerea - 2
Augusto Bonola, 22.09.1943
Alberto Briganti, 21.09.1943

Ammiragli di divisione - 4
Emilio Brenta, 22.09.1943
Giuseppe Lombardi, 28.09.1943
Gustavo Strazzeri, 17.10.1943
Manlio Tarantini, 19.10.1943

Generali di brigata - 107
Giuseppe Aimo (Retd.), 04.12.1943
Alessandro Albert, 26.09.1943
Attilio Amato, 26.09.1943
Giacomo Anderson, 03.10.1943
Enrico Andreini, 28.09.1943
Bertone Balbo, 26.09.1943
Michele Baratono, 26.09.1943
Giovanni Barbara (retd.), 21.09.1943
Domenico Barbaro, 20.09.1943 - Joins RSI
Cesare Bartolotta (retd.), 22.09.1943
Carlo Baudino, 13.11.1943
Guglielmo Bazzarello (retd.), 22.09.1943
Ferruccio Bignamini, 21.09.1943
Alfonso Binelli (retd.), 27.09.1943
Alessandro Bianchi (retd.), 22.09.1943
Arnaldo Bonelli, 22.09.1943
Romolo Borelli, 26.01.1945
Umberto Broccoli, 06.10.1943
Lorenzo Brovarone, 21.09.1943 - Joins RSI
Attilio Calendi, 13.11.1943
Carlo Canegallo (retd.), 23.09.1943
Giuseppe Capelli (retd.), 26.09.1943
Ettore Carossini, 28.09.1943
Augusto Caretta, 13.10.1943
Ludovico Castellani (retd.), 13.10.1943
Vincenzo Catalano, 25.09.1943
Giuseppe Cerruti (retd.), 05.10.1943
Ruggero Cessari, 18.10.1943
Carlo Chitti (retd.), 31.12.1943
Giuseppe Cinti, 31.12.1943
Giuseppe Consoli, 21.09.1943
Giuseppe Croce (retd.), 27.09.1943 - Joins RSI
Salvatore D'Agostino, 18.10.1943
Giovanni D'Antoni, 21.09.1943
Alberto De Agazio, 28.09.1943
Guido De Corné (retd.), 16.10.1943
Giovanni Del Giudice, 27.09.1943 - Joins RSI
Michele Di Gaetano, 13.10.1943
David Dusmet, 02.10.1943
Mario Fattori, 26.09.1943
Mario Ferrannini, 28.09.1943
Amedeo Ferandi, 20.09.1943
Ugo Ferrero, 27.09.1943
Carlo Filippi, 23.09.1943
Giacomo Florio (retd.), 22.09.1943
Tito Fuselli, 17.10.1943
Cesare Gandini, 21.09.1943
Agostino Garavano, 20.09.1943
Carlo Ghe, 22.09.1943
Eugenio Gatti, 26.10.1943
Fausto Ghemi (retd.), 09.10.1943
Vittorio Ghiselli, 28.09.1943
Francesco Giangreco, 25.09.1943
Italo Giglio, 26.09.1943
Achille Gilardi, 22.11.1943
Enrico Giorgetti (retd.), 31.12.1943
Mario Granozio (retd.), 20.10.1943
Claudio Gregori, 06.10.1944
Paolo Grimaldi, 24.11.1943
Almerico Jacobucci, 22.09.1943
Luigi Fallà, 02.10.1943 - Joins RSI
Carlo Lombardi, 26.09.1943
Armando Lubrano (retd.), 22.09.1943
Luigi Maggiore Perni (retd.), 02.10.1943
Eugenio Magrini (retd.), 02.10.1943
Francesco Mayer, 28.09.1943
Mario Marchi (retd.), 23.09.1932
Orazio Marescalco (retd.), 22.09.1943
Guido Masserano, 20.09.1943
Mario Matteucci, 28.09.1943
Riccardo Mattioli, 28.09.1943
Fortunato Mauro, 25.09.1943
Mario Mazza, 22.09.1943
Aldo Menghini, 21.09.1943
Francesco Mazzarelli, 28.09.1943
Giovanni Maromarco (retd), 22.09.1943
Augusto Moretto (retd.), 29.09.1943
Guglielmo Morgari, 06.10.1943
Luigi Ninci (retd.), 26.09.1943
Guglielmo Orengo (retd.) 21.09.1943
Luigi Paderini (retd.), 29.09.1943
Alpinolo Paoletti (retd.), 21.09.1943
Emilio Peano (retd.), 13.11.1943
Eugenio Peirolo, 17.10.1943
Rodolfo Piazzi (retd.), 17.10.1943
Beniamino Pittau, 24.09.1943
Lorenzo Richieri, 27.09.1943
Silvio Robino, 23.09.1943
Eligio Rosso (retd.), 26.09.1943
Emilio Sacchi (retd.), 17.10.1943
Giovanni Battista Salomon (retd.), 17.10.1943 - Joins RSI
Gualtieri Santini, 17.10.1943
Vincenzo Saporetti, 13.02.1944
Francesco Sclavo, 22.09.1943
Giovanni Scopelliti, 19.10.1943
Pietro Sisinni (retd.), 20.09.1943 - Joins RSI
Giovanni Stirati, 26.10.1943
Rodolfo Stivala (retd.), 22.09.1943
Giacomo Tonarelli, 09.10.1943
Alfredo Tortella (retd.), 25.09.1943 - Joins RSI
Alberto Trevissoi, 06.10.1944
Alberto Trionfi, 28.09.1943
Alessandro Vaccaneo (retd.), 05.10.1943
Renzo Vaccari (retd.), 17.10.1943
Vitaliano Visconti di Oleggio (retd.), 22.09.1943
Emilio Voli, 16.04.1944
Giuseppe Volpi (retd.), 26.09.1943

Generali di brigata aerea - 5
Pier Luigi Bardella, 06.10.1943
Attilio Biseo, 21.09.1943 - Joins RSI
Ranieri Cupini, 22.09.1943
Arnaldo Ferroni, 21.09.1943
Natale Palotta, 16.04.1944

Contrammiragli - 3
Carlo Daviso, 21.09.1943
Luigi Mascherpa, 17.12.1943
Franco Zannoni, 19.09.1943

Console generale della M.V.S.N - 1
Michele Pallotta, 25.09.1943 - Joins RSI
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Re: Italian Generals in Schokken

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Post by LColombo » 30 Dec 2019, 21:49

Thank you very much: that's exactly what I was looking for.

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